April 2025 Issue Lucy Moore An American in Paris Fearless and Free: A Memoir By Josephine Baker (Translated from French by Anam Zafar & Sophie Lewis) Josephine Baker’s Secret War: The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom By Hanna Diamond
November 2022 Issue David Jays Just Dance Mr B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century By Jennifer Homans LR
September 2022 Issue Miranda Seymour Dancing Up a Storm Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World By Rupert Christiansen LR
June 2022 Issue Rupert Christiansen Dance Like There’s No Yesterday La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern By Lynn Garafola LR
August 2021 Issue Rupert Christiansen Taking a Bow Clement Crisp Reviews: Six Decades of Dance By Gerald Dowler (ed) LR
February 1988 Issue Patrick Taylor-Martin Mickey Mouse of Tap Dance Astaire: The Biography By Tim Satchell LR
December 2018 Issue Rupert Christiansen Dance to the Music of Time Rhythm & Colour By Richard Emerson LR
December 2017 Issue Rupert Christiansen The Show Goes On Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes: Stories from a Silver Age By Michael Meylac (Translated by Rosanna Kelly)
February 2002 Issue Hugo Vickers She Liked to Dance Naked on Beaches Isadora: The Sensational Life Of Isadora Duncan By Peter Kurth LR
June 1996 Issue Alex Woodcock-Clarke A Brave, Cat-Like Woman But No Good at Dancing Lola Montez: A Life By Bruce Seymor LR
September 2016 Issue Rupert Christiansen Ballet Good Show Wrights & Wrongs: My Life in Dance By Peter Wright with Paul Arrowsmith LR
February 2015 Issue Rupert Christiansen Dancing Queen Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo By Victoria Tennant LR
December 2010 Issue Rupert Christiansen Heavenly Movement Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet By Jennifer Homans LR
July 2008 Issue Miranda France Raunchy Rhythms Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien: The Tango and Argentina By Brian Winter LR
April 2008 Issue Henrietta Garnett Maynard’s Muse Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes By Judith Mackrell LR
February 2013 Issue Rupert Christiansen White Swan Tatiana Leskova: A Ballerina at Large (Translated by Donald E Scrimgeour) By Suzana Braga LR
June 2013 Issue Robin Fox Twist & Shout The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance By Elizabeth Wayland Barber LR
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